36,000 students make it to final round of Teacher Eligibility Test

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KOLKATA: The year-long wait of the would-be school teachers in the state finally ended on Tuesday with the School Service Commission declaring the results of the Teacher Eligibility Test written examination. A total 36,590 students qualified for the last round of personality test.

As many as 9,826 posts, mainly in science subjects, will remain vacant because there are not enough candidates who could qualify the second round of Teacher Eligibility Test (TET). SSC authorities will have to make a fresh advertisement for filling up the vacant posts in state-run schools. Those who could make it to the final round after a protracted legal battle will be called for the five-mark interview from August 20. Education minister Bratya Basu said that the government that those selected in the final round will get appointment letters before the Pujas.

“We will be able to provide employment to more than a lakh candidates within the year combining the teaching and non-teaching posts. We expect to publish the results of primary TET examinations within a few months. It will create another 50,000 jobs in the state primary schools. All these, along with the recruitment in state universities, will exceed the one-lakh job mark that chief minister Mamata Banerjee had promised,” the education minister said.

A little embarrassed with the poor performance in science subjects, the education minister blamed it on the Left Front government’s faulty policy. “This is not unique. You will find many such candidates unable to qualify the TET in the preceding years. The Left Front’s faulty education policy has weakened the scientific temper among students,” Basu said.

Among the 9,826 posts which could not be filled, around 60% belongs to the SC/ST category. “The highest number of positions lying vacant is in mathematics in which around 2,000-2,500 posts could not be filled. The other subjects in which vacant posts remained are Economics, Bio-Sciences, Physics and Chemistry.

Majority of the candidates, who could not become eligible, are from the science stream,” said chairman of the West Bengal School Service Commission Chittaranjan Mondal. The delay in publishing the result by a year was attributed to the pending court cases.